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I was listening to Dead or Alive while drawing him. I need to spin him right 'round baby right 'round like a record baby right 'round 'round 'round~

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had a dream last night where I took a uquiz called “what do you serve?” and at first the questions were standard but as the quiz progressed they became more and more highly specific to me personally and the answers became more and more similar and I realised the quiz Knew me and was forcing me into being honest by giving me no other option so I tried to click out but it just went to the next question which was “are you the spider? or are you the web?” and it had an option for each but I didn’t click either so it then turned to a text box and I typed “I think I’m the fly” and the quiz paused for a while and then took me to a results page that said “you serve truth” and the description just read “what you know will kill you but you will die laughing” so like. good morning everyone I guess :/

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life imitates art

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Test 2

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This is a test of the tumblr tagging and blocking system to make sure that I can post about my tma game without my players seeing it

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Trying to build a ttrpg game for my friends is so hard. I have the location and the character, but I have to figure out how to build a mystery that isn't too hard or too easy. Curse my hubris for thinking this was easy. My hyperfixation ran out before everything was done

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Wait, based on the ask game, is GiSA no longer ongoing?

No worries, it's ongoing :D I'm just proud of having drawn like 30-ish chapters? I didn't thought I get this far :D

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I debated it for a while, but have decided not to risk it

I really battery acid spaghetti'd myself with this episode. Read the warnings, listened anyway.

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Wonder if Freddie got hit by that mass crash today

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Jonathan Sims, the man that you are…

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Caught in a web 🕸️ - Annabelle Cane

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I thought my fixation on the magnus protocol had died down, but since it's been on hiatus again I've realize how important a part of my week it was. The biggest is getting to talk to my roommate about the new episodes every week.

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Bring a friend! Or maybe an enemy!

EDIT: There’s been a lot of people asking/wanting a physical poster of this poster design, I don’t have any way to sell any of my art at the moment sadly. However, if you want to print this off for your own personal use I’m happy to let people do that 🫶 just as long as I’m credited and tagged if any pictures get posted!

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Taz screaming no is literally all of us

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Miniature of Michael and the corridors + Jons office i made for my art class!

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the problem with the addiction metaphor for avatars in the magnus archives isn't actually with the metaphor itself, it's that it's treated as the Only way to understand monsterhood.

"jon made the choice to go after live statements because they felt good" is true

"jon felt good when he took live statements as a metaphor for addiction" is true

"jon felt good when he took live statements because victimizing people feels empowering" is true

"jon felt good when he took live statements Because Eating Feels Good" Is Also True

it's easy to say that jon made The Choice to continue being a monster, there's plenty of characters in the show who've said as much.

but the choice to continue being a monster is Equally the choice to Survive, to continue living. and trying to have a conversation about the Morality of jon's choice, as if it is Only about how good it feels to be monstrous, as if the addiction to living can be separated from the reality of dying. is a bit ridiculous !

the whole point of jon's situation, of Being an avatar, is that it's not Fair. jon was turned into a monster without his knowledge or consent, and then was told that there was no way out of it but to die.

it's not Fair to blame someone for wanting to live, it's not Fair to hurt someone to continue living. both are true, and that's Exactly what makes it interesting ! Why avatars can be both victims and victimizers in turn.

what makes someone like jon different from someone like jared hopsworth isn't their capacity for violence or to cause pain, it's the Choice To Continue Feeling Compassion For Other People. to make the active Choice to see other human beings As People and care about the harm you cause them.

so much of the narrative of tma is about characters who are stripped of agency, who still make Meaningful Choices Anyways. by Choosing to care, even as that choice hurts you. to continue to care even though it would feel Good not to.

this isn't Separate from the metaphor about addiction, it's in Conversation with it.